The massacre of four peasants by the front 4 of the FARC dissidents in a rural area of the municipality of Remedies opened a new chapter regarding the panorama of public order and the presence of organized armed structures in the department.
This massacre took place on the sidewalk The Camelliaswhere dissidents under the service of alias ‘Calarcá’ They raided farms, burned two homes and They kidnapped four people.
After hearing the news of kidnapping of the four peasantshours later the department authorities confirmed that three of the victims were murdered on the spot, while a fourth remained missing for several days, until finally on June 8 the discovery of his body.
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The kidnapping victims who were found murdered. Photo:Private archive, social networks
The victims were identified as Efraín de Jesús Botero and Rocío Silva. The other two people kidnapped and also murdered They were a man and a woman, it seemed, farm workers where the massacre occurred.
This crime deepened the security problem that is lived in Northeast Antioquia and forced the Governorate to resort to one of the only operational alternatives he can stick to for the persecution and prosecution of criminals who would be behind this fact.
It should be noted that members of the front 4 HE They attributed this fact.
Through a release disseminated on various digital portals, the General Staff of the Fourth Front of the FARC-EP dissidentsattached to Medium Magdalena Block under the command of ‘Calarca‘, he attributed the retention and subsequent execution of victims.
In his statement, the criminal group intended distort reality of what happened, arguing that the four people were carrying out alleged “”informants and caregivers“on property that, according to them, belongs to paramilitary structures.
In that same narrative line, the illegal armed organization claimed to have two firearms seized and communication equipment during the violent raid.
In fact, the GAO also published a infamous video in which a woman assumed the spokesperson. In this recording, the front 4 insisted in which the four victims were informants and caretakers of a farm owned by ‘paramilitaries’as pointed out by the belligerent.
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Massacre in Remedios (Antioquia) Photo:Gemini and Courtesy
This video became a key element for the authorities, because it helped put a ‘face’ on it to one essential tab for this armed group whose operation is concentrated in the Northeast Antioquia.
In days gone by, the governor of Antioquia, Andrés Julián Rendónhad already announced the availability of 500 million pesos reward by three key men for him GAO-r 4 of the dissents.
According to intelligence information, the responsible for the crime they would be Luis Montoya, alias ‘Jhon Fiera’, leader of this structure and determiner of the massacreand alias ‘Johan Veneco’a member of the GAO who would have had direct participation in the kidnapping and murder of peasants.
Poster of the most wanted of the 4th front of the FARC dissidents in Antioquia. Photo:Governorate of Antioquia.
Now, the authorities allocated 100 million pesos more as reward for information that leads the public force to the woman who spoke in the video spread by the dissidents.
According to the National Army intelligencethis woman was identified with the alias of ‘The Nurse’ and ‘Samantha‘.
This woman would have joined the organization to provide basic care services and there would be scaling within hierarchies of the structure after become romantically linked with alias Jhon Fierahe leader of GAO-r 4.
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Alias Samantha, the ‘communicator’ of front 4. Photo:Supplied.
Currently, the women’s role would be associated with communications of the armed groupnot only from the spokespersonbut from the construction of messages spread throughout the structure.
The authorities would have registration of at least three videos from the authorship of front 4 of the dissidents in which ‘Samantha‘I would have run with the spokesperson.
NICOLAS TAMAYO ESCALANTE
Journalist from Nación, in Medellín.
